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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
(1961)

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Synopsis

Nuclear testing by the Americans and Russians has tilted the Earth off its axis and sent it on a collision course with the sun. As a group of journalists at London's Daily Express report the unfolding events, the superpowers plan to explode two more bombs hoping to set the planet back on it's original orbit.